Subsidized housing and incentives for developers to create affordable units are also critical, especially for supporting lower-income families.

Do whatever you’re most comfortable with and ignore the naysayers and critics.

It's critical to to get references and work with BB&B-accredited and fully insured companies when this amount of money is involved.

Our thesis is that there is a critical shortage of inexpensive but quality housing in the US.

You will find many locations in the Midwest in the list along with some critical statistics.  

One, you really have to choose well- both the location and “the lease” are super critical to long term success.

Criticizing a new investor for being new seems silly.

I think joint leases, over-communicating, building rapport, establishing expectations early, and having A+ locations have all been critical during COVID.The only major difference I'd offer is that we do require guarantors for each resident.

They seem very similar in that they handle emergency and non-emergency maintenance calls and, critically, even dispatch contractors/service-people with minimal intervention from me.

I think those are critically important.